Chapter Three: Jackie's Perspective (Ugly Monsters)
Author's Note:
Here's Chaper Three: Jackie's Perspective (Ugly Monsters). This chapter is a bit humorous, full of action, and secrets are revealed in the next chapter, Chapter Four: Slider's Perspective (Growing Power). Check it out! Enjoy and review please! See ya! ;-)
-CelestialTime93
"I am so glad that Gym Class is over!" Jackie exclaimed of relief as she and Slider walked to the Campus Entrance to their second period.
"The Gym Teacher's pretty nasty for a teacher." Slider commented, "Almost as nasty as Hacker."
"Tsch, don't remind me." Jackie groaned.
Suddenly, there was a flurry of black lights and clouds in front of them. Soon, a monster in the shape of a mutated druid appeared infront of them.
"Gaah!" Jackie screamed, paralyzed with fear, "What in the world is that?"
"Like I'm supposed to know!" Slider replied.
Jackie was shaking with fear. She knew one thing to do. She reached in her trembling hand into her uniform's pocket and pulled out her pager. She typed in the numbers, 9-1-1. Then, she pressed send to Inez's pager. She looked up to see Slider doing the same, and sending it to Matt's pager.
The two put the pagers away, and started leading the druid away from the students, or at least until they were safe inside with the teachers.
After a while of dodging the druid's attacks, Jackie's pager rumbled and beeped. She took it out and read the message out loud. "Where are you? Where are we? We're at the Campus Entrance!" Jackie began typing in the words, "Campus Entrance," not noticing the last five letters being cut off.
"You do know that the pager only fits 10 characters?" Slider said, dodging the druid's flailing arm.
"Oh, darn!" Jackie slapped her forehead, "I forgot! Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought you knew!" Slider replied above the druid's growl. Both dodged another oncoming attack.
"Guys!" Matt called from the school hallway. Then, he and Inez gasped.
"Get down!" Jackie called.
Matt and Inez ducked from a flailing attack from a flurry of sharp leaves.
"Razor Leaves?" Inez wondered out loud in exclamation.
"Think so." Matt replied, "Come on! Jacs! Slider! Lead the druid to the lake!"
With Jackie and Slider leading, Matt and Inez followed, closer to the druid.
"Don't you dare!" Jackie heard Inez from behind. Then she heard her scream, and saw her scurrying further from Jackie and Slider ahead. Matt caught up with the two.
"Man, she has speed!" Jackie commented of approval.
"You can say that again." Matt replied
"Man, she has speed!" Jackie repeated.
"Not litteraly!" Matt groaned,"C'mon! We're almost - whoaaaa!"
Jackie slipped and screamed after Matt and Slider as the three slid down the grassy hill after Inez.
Finally, they landed near the giant lake by the School Campus. The druid quickly followed.
"Somebody's gotta cut that tree down before we're cut down first!" Jackie cried, shivering at her own words.
"I left my knife back in my red backpack!" Matt exclaimed, searching his pockets and school bag.
"So much for that..." Jackie mumbled. Can't he remember to bring anything?
"Jacs! Look out!" Inez cried.
It was too late. Jackie was already hit hard on the stomach, and was thrown into the lake by the druid.
Jackie held her breath as she flailed her arms and legs to the surface, finally reaching air.
"Guys!" Jackie choked, struggling to stay afloat, "I can't swim, remember?"
"Hold on!" Slider cried. He grabbed the largest twig he could find, and tried to reach the other end towards Jackie.
While Jackie was trying to reach for the twig, she suddenly managed to see the twig, somehow... growing. It was growing, and growing.
Suddenly, Jackie felt the water somehow push her to the surface more and more.
Finally, Jackie took grasp of the twig, and was hauled forward by her friends.
"That was too close!" Inez sighed of relief as the four friends began breathing hard from the pulling.
"Way too close for me!" Jackie choked, coughing up water out of her mouth, "I almost got killed!"
"And we're gonna all get killed, if we don't do something about the druid!" Slider exclaimed, as the druid was ready to knock all four of them out cold at once.
"Slider! Hand me the twig!" Matt said. Slider handed the twig to Matt.
Matt stood up and charged towards the raging druid.
"Take this!" Matt cried, slashing the druid with the twig. The end of the twig left a burn mark on the druid, forcing it to scream in agony.
"Whoa!" Matt exclaimed.
"Matt!" Jackie exclaimed, noticing what was at the end of the twig, "The twig! It's on fire!"
"What?" Matt looked at the end and yelped, flailing the fiery stick into the air.
The twig landed on the druid's head, making it scream in pain even more.
"Matt!" Inez exclaimed, then tripped on a stone while she was running towards the crouching Matt. She tumbled in the air, then didn't even land on the ground on her feet.
"Inez!" Jackie exclaimed, "You're flying!"
"I'm what?" Inez groaned, looking down. She yelped, "I hate heights..."
"Just live with it!" Jackie cried, standing up and pushing Inez towards where Matt was.
Inez tumbled in the air, and landed right next to Matt.
Slider ran towards the two, as the druid was about to topple foreward for it's final attack.
Jackie didn't even know what she was doing, when she raised her right hand in a ribbon-like motion, bringing the lake's water with it, in the same motion, and soaking the druid, and giving her friends enough time to get out of the way.
The druid tumbled and crashed into the lake, where it shrunk into a piece of drift wood. Black mist evaporated out of the drift wood, and disappeared into thin air.
Whoa. Jackie thought, wide eyed.